How can I use technology to transform my current practices and prepare my students for the Web 2.0 world?


Publishing and sharing student work
Blogs: Creating a way for students to post their work--Blogger.com
How to get your class started with a blogging process--a great step-by-step video from an Art teacher who brought blogging into her practice.

  • Some blogs worth exploring
Social Networks: Create a way for students to interact with each other--Ning
  • Some Ning sites worth exploring
    • Classroom 2.0--a Ning for those interesting in using Web 20 tools in their classrooms. Great discussions and tips
How students can share their slide shows (PowerPoint) on-line (so they can get feedback from others and not have to carry them around)

Research and reading
Social bookmarking: Creating a way for you to save and share bookmarks (and to make notes on bookmarked pages)--
Diigo.com
Subscribing: Creating a way to stay on top of what others are saying: RSS subscriptions and Google reader
How to use the RSS feed function to subscribe to blogs and other regularly updated sites
Feeds of interest to English teachers

New model for the research process

Podcasting
Great information and tutorials on how to create a podcast
Podcasting in Plain English video



Web 2.0 Literacy

Learning the tools of web 2.0